Happy New Year, everyone!

Here's the newest installment of TTEOAS. But first I want to take the chance to say once more thanks for all the amazing feedback and support. And a special thanks goes to all the people I can't reach via e-mail. You gals and guys rock!! Anyway, here's the story. Hope you'll enjoy it. - Michi

Title – Through The Eye Of A Shipper – S10 E11 Automatic For The People

Author Name – Michi

E-mail – catherinebellfan 'at 'gmx.de or mp111275 'at' yahoo.de

Rating – PG

Paring – Harm & Mac

Spoilers – Season 10 Episode 11 – 'Automatic For The People'

Disclaimer – JAG belongs to DPB, CBS, and Paramount.

Summary- How 'Automatic For The People' should've been continued when you saw it through the eye of a shipper…

Author's Notes-

- The plan is it to revisit every episode from season 10. However, this series doesn't have any strict rule. Sometimes it may be a follow-up, sometimes it could be a changed scene, or even a change to the entire episode. And if that doesn't work we could always do a 'missing scene'-story. This means the length of the story is based on the way we want to 'handle' the revisit. But don't worry…we plan to use more than 150 words!!!

- Thanks to Acer, Carol, and Vered from for the great beta work!!! You gals rock!!! However, English is not our native language (yup, even Carol wants to use this statement LOL). Take this as a fair warning!

-Since this series will deal with a just aired episode, it means that we risk having a FF that might seem like someone else's. There's hope that our ideas are unique, but should that not be the case we apologize and swear to our god and the chocolate that we did not know it or do it on purpose.

- Feedback is always welcome.

Mac's Apartment

Georgetown, DC

11:58 PM

Mac was nearly asleep when she heard the soft knock at her apartment door. 'Who could that be?' she thought as she looked surprised at her alarm clock. Groggily she got out of her bed and made her way to the door.

When Mac looked through the peephole, she could see who her nightly visitor was and immediately unlocked her door before finally opening it. "Hey," she greeted tenderly and rubbed her sleepy eyes.

"Hey," Harm answered gently before taking in her appearance; seeing that she was wearing her pajamas and looking very sleepy. "I shouldn't be here. I'm sorry if I woke you up, Mac," he continued quietly and took a step backward.

Mac instantly caught his move and reacted. "You didn't wake me up. And it's more than okay that you're here. Please come in," she invited him in while opening the door farther to let him walk into her apartment. "What's wrong, Harm?"

"She kissed me," Harm replied promptly without thinking twice. He took off his coat and laid it down on one of her armchairs.

Mac felt taken back for a second when she heard his prompt answer, not understanding what he was talking about. She could see how confused Harm seemed to be.

"Lt. Graves kissed you?" Mac curiously asked as soon as she remembered her talk with Sturgis from this afternoon. He'd told her about Harm's investigation in California and that he had a Lt. Catherine Graves as partner.

"No. Megan kissed me," Harm clarified quietly while flopping down on Mac's couch with a heavy sigh.

"Megan? Who's Megan?" Mac wanted to know as she sat down right next to Harm, being much more curious now than before.

"Megan Ransford. Her father was killed in the crash. He was sitting in the field near the school painting a picture when the plane dropped."

"Oh. That's horrible."

"Yeah. She kissed me, Mac," Harm repeated his words from earlier, looking for the first time into her eyes.

"I'm not sure if I understand," Mac told him slightly confused.

"You don't understand why she kissed me?"

"No, I do understand why she kissed you. I mean, who wouldn't like to kiss you." Mac smiled softly at Harm and got a smile in return.

"So what is it you don't understand?" Harm asked her quietly.

"I'm not sure why you are here. Harm, you wouldn't knock on my door in the middle of the night just because a woman kissed you. What happened?" Mac wanted to know. She was looking at him thoroughly, still trying to find out what was wrong with her friend.

"Nothing happened and everything happened."

"Now that makes much more sense to me, Harm." Both chuckled at her response.

"What I mean is that when she kissed me I didn't feel what I should have felt," Harm tried to explain but saw that Mac couldn't really follow him.

"You mean it bothers you that you didn't feel anything when she kissed you?"

"Oh, I felt a lot when she kissed me, but it had nothing to do with her."

"What do you mean? What did you feel, Harm?"

Harm took a deep breath before looking deeply into Mac's eyes. "Desire. Longing. I wanted so badly to be kissed, but simply not by her."

When Mac looked into Harm's eyes she thought she could see in them where he wanted to go with this, so she dared asking the next question. Maybe one of the most important questions in her life. "By who did you want to be kissed, Harm?" Mac asked, surprised by the hoarsely voice that came out of her mouth.

"By you, Sarah. I wanted to be kissed by you and only you," Harm answered huskily, moving his head slowly to hers.

"And that's why you're here now?" Mac asked in a whisper, moving her head as well.

"Yes. These feelings, the longing and the desire, they didn't want to fade away and I couldn't fall asleep. In the end it drove me here. To you."

"And I'm very glad you are here, because there is nothing I would like to do more than kiss you right now, Harm," Mac told him gently while her lips were already touching his slightly.

"Perfect," Harm whispered before he kissed her sweetly.

The next few minutes were spent kissing and slightly caressing each other. Everything around them seemed to be gone and there was no more need for words. The passion of their kisses increased when Harm slowly pushed himself back on the couch and therefore taking Mac with him so she laid on top of him.

When Mac broke their latest kiss she touched Harm's lips with her forefinger. "I love you, Harm," she said in a whisper while looking deeply into his eyes.

Harm moved his hand to touch her cheek. When his lips curled into a smile she could only respond with one of her own. "I love you too, Sarah," he said gently. "And I never want to stop kissing you again." Then he was kissing her once more.

Just as Mac was nuzzling Harm's neck she could hear him yawing. With a chuckle she looked up at him and could see how tired he looked by now.

She got off of him and stood in front of her couch. "Come on, you look like you could need a good night sleep and to be honest, so could I," she said tenderly, holding her hands out to him so she could help him up.

"Are you sure? I'm not sure if that's a good idea," Harm told her gently, not letting go of her hands. He looked down at their joined hands before starting to caress the palm of her right hand with his forefinger.

"We've shared close quarters many times, Harm. I know you don't snore so it shouldn't be a problem. I'll get my beauty sleep," Mac teased.

"Ha ha, very funny, Marine," Harm responded with a chuckle. "You know what I mean."

"Yes, I do," Mac answered softly. "Seriously, Harm, it's okay. I would really like to sleep in your arms tonight."

"There's nothing I would like to do more than hold you in my arms tonight, Sarah," Harm said tenderly before giving her yet another sweet kiss on her lips. As soon as they broke the kiss he had to chuckle.

"What?"

"Nothing. I just remembered something I told Megan."

"What was it?" Mac asked curiously as they walked into her bedroom together.

"She asked me if my girl was a brunette and I told her that she's not my girl yet. I guess I can finally drop the word 'yet'," Harm told her with a huge smile.

"Oh, you better," Mac told him before closing the bedroom door behind them.

The End